Genymotion Android emulator

[Mark Wieder]

Warren-

Saturday, July 20, 2013, 11:30:14 AM, you wrote:

> On 07/20/2013 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> On 07/20/2013 08:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>> Richmond-
>>>
>>> Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:02:38 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Setting the thing up was, inevitably, slightly difficult as,
>>>> inevitably, the setup instructions were slightly wrong (but that is
>>>> normal for Linux).
>>> As I am about to install this thing next week, would you care to share
>>> any insights about that process?
>>>
>>
>> Well . . .
>>
>> The first thing is to get VirtualBox sorted out on your system.
>>
>> The second thing is that Genymotion looks for the SDK which is hard to
>> locate:
>>
>> ~/android-sdks/sdk  (where '~' is your Home folder),
>>
>> don't let yourself be distracted by 'android-sdk-linux'
>>
>> after that it goes "all funny" about something that is supposed to be in
>> the /etc/init.d folder, but isn't; so you have to do some fiddling around,
>> and quite how the thing worked because of my fiddling around I cannot
>> really say.
>>
>> After that things seem comparatively straightforward, and I suspect the
>> best way to
>> get an Android standalone onto one of the devices is by uploading it to
>> some website
>> and then downloading it from inside the emulated device.
>>
>> Unfortunately right now I've got a lot of "extraneous stuff" on my
>> plate, but I hope, come
>> Sunday night I will be able to upload some reasonably pretty pictures to
>> the Forum.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>

> Apparently installation woes are a YMMV kind of thing. I just installed
> without any headscratching at all. Just clicked through the dialogs as
> they came up and I was all set and running.

That can easily depend on linux distros, especially where init.d comes
into play.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net